Former gardener who turned to drug dealing is jailed over county lines role in Shrewsbury
A former gardener who turned to drug dealing after losing his job and home has been jailed after peddling cocaine in Shrewsbury.
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Benjamin Ellsey, of no fixed abode, was spotted in the Shropshire county town at about 10pm on March 4 last year by police officers who suspected him of a being a member of the suspected 'Fire Line' county lines drug dealing operation.
Officers arrested the 34-year-old and conducted a strip search, Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on Thursday (April 17) and found seven wraps of crack cocaine in his jogging bottoms.
A mobile phone with 77 calls relating to drug dealing was also found in his possession.
